Invitation to Participate

  Notes from 02 September 2005 Meeting at NCEP

    Simulation Timeline (as of 14 November 2005)

Time Period	Event
Spring - Summer 2005	Solicit participation and develop NAMAP2 simulation protocols
Summer - Autumn 2005	Develop the prescribed global SST fields at NCEP
October 2005	Report on NAMAP2 progress at the NOAA Climate Diagnostics Workshop
November 2005	SST data disseminated NAMAP2 simulations initiated
Winter 2005/6	NAMAP2 simulations carried out at individual modeling centers
28 February 2006	Deadline for submission of NAMAP2 simulations
Spring 2006	NAMAP2 analysis to be carried out at Climate Prediction Center
Summer 2006	Results presented at NAME meeting; initial results written up for publication

    Simulation Guidelines (as of 22 June 2005)

Guideline	Definition
Simulation Period	15 May-30 September 2004
Domain of Interest	15°-45°N 125°-75°W
Lateral Boundary Conditions (for regional models)	NOAA CDAS2
Surface Boundary Conditions/oceanic	Global fields for Simulation Period (to be supplied by CPC in Autumn 2005)
Surface Boundary Conditions/continental	Chosen by each modeling group

    Output Archiving Protocols (as of 08 Sep 2005)

      Fields to archive:

abbrv	field	abbrv	field
Ms	sfc layer soil moisture	Ts	temperature (surface)
Msub	subsfc soil moisture	T2m	temperature (2m)
Msca	sfc soil moisture cap	T850	temperature (850 hPa)
Mbca	subsfc soil mois. cap	T500	temperature (500 hPa)
Rs	sfc layer runoff	T300	temperature (300 hPA)
Rsub	subsfc runoff	Zs	geopotential ht (surface)
Veg	Vegetation stress	Z850	geopotential ht (850 hPa)
SWs	net sfc SW flux (+dn)	Z500	geopotential ht (500 hPa)
LWs	net sfc LW flux (+up)	Z300	geopotential ht (300 hPa)
LHs	sfc latent flux (+up)	Q2m	specific humidity (2m)
SHs	sfc sensible flux (+up)	Q850	specific humidity (850 hPa)
As	albedo (surface)	Q500	specific humidity (500 hPa)
Ap	albedo (planetary)	Q300	specific humidity (300 hPa)
SLP	sea level pressure	U10m	zonal wind (10m)
OLR	outgoing LW flux (TOA)	U850	zonal wind (850 hPa)
Topo	surface elevation ASL	U500	zonal wind (500 hPa)
CWco	column condensed H2O	U300	zonal wind (300 hPa)
Qco	column specific humidity	V10m	meridional wind (10m)
QUco	vert integrated QU	V850	meridional wind (850 hPa)
QVco	vert inegrated QV	V500	meridional wind (500 hPa)
CWlt	sfc-700hPa cond H2O	V300	meridional wind (300 hPa)
Qlt	sfc-700hPa spec humidity	Pcon	precipitation (convective)
QUlt	sfc-700hPa cond QU	Pres	precipitation (resolved)
QVlt	sfc-700hPa cond QV	CAPE	convective available PE
CWut	700hPa-top cond H2O	Cin	convective inhibition
Qut	700hPa-top spec humidity
QUut	700hPa-top cond QU
QVut	700hPa-top cond QV




  Archive high-resolution (at least hourly in time and full vertical resolution)
  "MOLTS" - style output -- including surface fluxes and profiles of humidity,
  T, u, v, w, p, plus resolved and convective precipitation, cloud fraction,
  radiation, and turbulence at model gridpoints corresponding to the following
  sounding sites:



site	lat	lon	site	lat	lon
NAME sounding sites			US, Cent Amer. RAOBS
Puerto Penasco (ISS 2)	31.18N	113.33W	Tucson (NWS)	32.12N	110.92W
Bahia Kino (ISS 3)	28.81N	111.93W	Las Vegas (NWS)	36.62N	116.02W
Los Mochis (ISS 4)	25.41N	109.05W	San Diego (NWS)	32.85N	117.12W
Loreto (GLASS)	26.01N	111.21W	Flagstaff (NWS)	35.23N	111.82W
RV Altair (CSU)	21.49N	106.07W	Albuquerque (NWS)	35.05N	106.62W
SMN sites			El Paso (NWS)	31.87N	106.70W
Empalme	27.95N	110.77W	Amarillo (NWS)	35.23N	101.70W
Mazatlan	23.20N	106.42W	Midland (NWS)	31.95N	102.18W
Chihuahua	28.63N	106.08W	Del Rio (NWS)	29.37N	100.92W
Torreon	25.53N	103.45W	Yuma (ARMY)	32.51N	114.00W
Monterrey	25.87N	100.23W	Phoenix (SRP)	33.45N	111.95W
Zacatecas/Guadalupe	22.75N	102.51W	Belize City, Belize	17.53N	88.3W
La Paz	24.17N	110.30W
Mexico City	19.4N	99.2W

NCAR/EOL NAMAP2 Data Management

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